Gallery Edition – Summer Evening by Auguste Louis Lepre – 44×54 Interior Architectural Study

Curatorial Narrative In the midst of the Belle poque, Auguste Louis Lepre’s “Summer Evening” (1910) embodies the quietude of modernity. This landscape painting exemplifies the artist’s mastery of linear brushwork, where deliberate strokes evoke a sense of restraint and control. The beige, black, and brown palette, characteristic of Lepre’s oeuvre, imbues the scene with a sense of subtlety, as if the very essence of summer has been distilled into a chromatic structure that whispers rather than shouts. This is a painting about atmosphere, not drama; its intent is to capture the languid quality of a warm evening, when the boundaries between indoors and outdoors blur.When enlarged to 44×54, “Summer Evening” transforms into an architectural entity, where spatial rhythm and compositional structure converge to create a sense of depth that is at once calming and immersive. The linear brushwork, now amplified, generates a sense of movement t